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Dee Dee Bridgewater

Jazz
Jazz

Dee Dee Bridgewater is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Larry Dunn, Andy Bey, Zucchero, Horace Silver and Billie Holiday. Those roots explain a lot about how Dee Dee Bridgewater arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Stacey Kent, Nancy Wilson, Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughan and Abbey Lincoln, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into China Moses and Fatoumata Diawara, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around Dee Dee Bridgewater, reaching back through Larry Dunn and forward to China Moses. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Dee Dee BridgewaterLarry DunnAndy BeyZuccheroHorace SilverBillie HolidayKurt WeillElla FitzgeraldDuke EllingtonChina MosesFatoumata DiawaraStacey KentNancy WilsonCarmen McRaeSarah VaughanAbbey LincolnCécile McLorin SalvantLisa EkdahlMadeleine Peyroux

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Dee Dee Bridgewater grew out of Larry Dunn, Andy Bey, Zucchero and Horace Silver, shares an orbit with Stacey Kent, Nancy Wilson, Carmen McRae and Sarah Vaughan, went on to shape China Moses and Fatoumata Diawara. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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